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Györgyi Gábor: From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)
After getting experiences on five cycletours in Slovakia and two in Austria and Slovenia in july 2000 I was ready to bike on my most serious tour in my life: to push the pedals from my favourite area, the Dolomites - which is said to be one of the world’s most beaufiful mountain-ranges – reaching the Adriatic sea to Nagykanizsa, a hungarian town next to the border. As in last year this year I also travelled to Cavalese, the place of our holiday with my parents, from where I set out the 1400km long – with a 3 day long detour – homeway after a week long training, warming up and programs together with my parents. In every case I wanted to visit the wonderful Lake Garda – which I only heard about – and Venice that I liked from the videos, but where I also hadn’t been before. During the week I spent in the Dolomites with my parents I made three beautiful cycletours and managed to cycle through some passes.

Biketour from the Dolomites to Hungary

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2004-09-13 12:38:20

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it in its right side. There were only columns in that side, so I could enjoy the scenic view of the 3342m high Marmolada and its glaciers. At the summit I found the ca. 2 km long clear lake I had known already and straight ahead the Civetta showed its rocks. Backwards there was also a nice picture of the „Rosengarten group”. It is a wonderful rockgroup in the Dolomites and is famous for its colours in the sunset. The descent is sometimes on the program of the Giro d’Italia, because upwards sometimes it’s 16% steep. In spite of the long straight slope I didn’t have enough braveness to fast above the speed of 70 km/h. From Caprile (1014m) I biked up to the 1453m high Colle Santa Lucia on a wonderful road. The scenic view on the left started from the Lake Alleghe and the 2000m higher Civetta (photo) (with its 1500m high rockwall) then in the middle the area and the valley of the Fedaia pass with the Marmolada and at the end, on the right the valley towards to the Pordoi-pass. The little village, Caprile was nearly 500 mdeeper than me.I was behind the schedule of my plan, so after the beautiful experiences of the morning I decided not to hurry and tire me out with cycling on the 8-10% steep ascent of the Giau pass, but to choose the „only” 1773m high Staulanza pass and then homewards the Pordoi pass. The climb up to the Staulanza pass was not a difficult one, it sloped gently towards the huge rocks of the Monte Pelmo which was a surprise for me. From the Santa Lucia pass I already saw this mountain, and I was sad to miss the road towards it, because I believed (without looking at the map) that the road under it is the Giau-pass. So pushing the pedals towards this beautiful mountain was a nice surprise. The pass was just next to the Monte Pelmo. The last serious effort of my tour was the 10 km long ascent of the 2239m high Pordoi pass. The heightdifference was 639m, so it seemed to be a middle steep climb. I managed to bike up on this twisting road in the lights ...